Plutocracy: Political Repression in the U.S.A. (must-see)

Plutocracy is the first documentary to comprehensively examine early American history through the lens of class. A multi-part series by filmmaker Scott Noble, Part I focuses on the the ways in which the American people have historically been divided on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex and skill level.

Plutocracy: Divide et Impera (Divide and Rule) includes sections on Mother Jones, the American Constitution; the Civil War draft riots; Reconstruction; Industrialization; the evolution of the police; the robber barons; early American labor unions; and major mid-to-late 19th Century labor events including the uprising of 1877, the Haymarket Affair, the Homestead strike and the New Orleans General Strike. The introduction examines the West Virginian coal wars of the early 20th Century, culminating in the Battle of Blair Mountain.

Part II (‘Solidarity Forever’) will cover the late 19th Century to the early twenties.

The filmmaker is currently seeking donations to complete the project. If you’d like to help, you can donate to their Patreon account.

Scott Noble is a documentary filmmaker and wage slave. His films are available at his website Metanoia-Films.org.

folktruther, mass killing of civilians was also a huge part of U.S. strategy and tactics during World War II. Aerial bombing of German, Italian, and Japanese cities, culminating in the firebombings of Dresden, Hamburg, and Tokyo and the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was done intentionally to demoralize the civilian populations of those Axis powers.

However, the Strategic Bombing Survey conducted after World War II by the Allies reached, at best, an ambiguous conclusion that some civilians were demoralized but some were made even more enraged and resistant against the Allies.

Since 1945, as you have stated, U.S. intentional bombing of civilians has been perpetrated entirely against “non-white” civilian populations, and, despite its immorality and violation of international laws, continues today with Obama’s drone war.

there has been a mind-blowing book written by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz called INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ HIISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.. It’s largely a shocking story of three centuries of democide of the American Indians. Most US-Americans believe that the military does not attack noncombatant civilians, but this is completely false. the century long wars were conducted by killing the children, women, and old men, as well as fighting the armed.

The importance for us is that the mass killing of civilians is an essential part of US imperialism, and occurs increasingly in the post world war 2 wars, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, etc. US power has been attained on the blood of primarily non-White people.

The implications for conceptual ideology of political and social truth is that racist oppression has been more brutal than class oppression, and equally systemic.

I couldn’t agree more. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz was of course interviewed by Abby Martin in a jaw-dropping episode of the Empire Files that Lo posted here a while back. This is the real history every American should absorb in their bone-marrow. It takes courage just to face up to these facts. Most people will be shocked, revolted and dismayed.

Given the unprecedented research potential now available, it may be feasible & I think prove genuinely enlightening, to compile a thoroughly truthful, factually inclusive and honest world narrative ~ a collaborative project of international scholarship, to document as reliable an account as possible, of all the genocidal atrocities of which we have certain knowledge, perpetrated by all complicit groups and regimes.

That way we could compare and contrast murderous “cultural” traits through their systems of governance, religious dominion, and/or secular domination. Then perhaps we could draw authentically valuable psycho-historical and socio-biological inferences from these inerasable data, to cast real light on the hereditary nature of universally diverse humankind ~ both our similarities and our differences.

Such an undertaking might be the one sure way to restore, or at the very least, to restate, revise and affirm that key principle known as the sacred trust of civilization ~ that was provisionally articulated (somewhat paternalistically) in the early treaty deliberations of the League of Nations.

The Golden Rule

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